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Giro d'Italia 2013

AG2R La Mondiale sacks Sylvain Georges following positive test at Giro d'Italia

Team manager Lavenu says team will tighten internal controls; meanwhile, some of Tour de France roster confirmed

Video: Cracking Giro d'Italia 2013 highlights as Nibali takes pink and Cav clinches red

10-minute film from organisers RCS Sport whisks through all 21 stages

Giro tyre schwag: we have winners!

Better late than never, eh

Mauro Santambrogio provisionally suspended after positive EPO test at Giro

Second Vini Fantini - Selle Italia rider tests positive; Di Luca already kicked off the team

Giro d'Italia reaction from 2013 champion Vincenzo Nibali & points jersey winner Mark Cavendish

Post-race reflections from two men who wrote their names into Giro history in Brescia today

Giro d'Italia Stage 21: Cavendish wins stage & points jersey as Nibali seals overall win

Cav writes another page in history as he becomes only the fifth rider to win points competition in all three Grand Tours

A sense of place… Why 'terroir' makes the great races what they are

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The French call it terroir. It doesn’t really have an equivalent in English, but describes the effect of soil, climate, aspect and general growing conditions have on grapes and the wines they produce. It’s not too hard to distinguish in some cases, most of us who like a glass can, if pushed, taste the difference between an Australian Shiraz and a French Syrah (the same grape) even if that bottle of Côte du Rhone doesn’t have the grape name written on it anywhere.

Giro d'Italia - A sense of place

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Giro stg 13 - vineyards
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Giro stg 13 - dancing girl

Giro d'Italia Stage 20: Nibali wins in the Dolomites, Uran moves second

Siciilian effectively seals overall win, Cavendish poised to complete full set of Grand Tour points jerseys

Giro stage 20 re-routed due to continuing bad weather

Three passes removed after heavy snow but it's still a summit finish... for now

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